Tiktok banned my account for talking about gender & why you should care
Updated: Jul 23, 2021
As a small Tiktok creator, I have the ability to make passive income on Tiktok per view on my videos. Granted this fund isn't pulling in thousands of dollars, but you can make a couple hundred over the course of multiple highly successful videos.
So like anyone, I applied to what Tiktok calls the "creator fund." A place to reward creators with passive income when creating videos for Tiktok consumers.
I applied and waited to get approved and when I did, I check back on my account to find this:
I got denied from the creator fund and multiple videos were deleted from my account. My account is suspended for my videos going against community guidelines. A couple of my videos were filed under: hate speech.
Why hate speech? Because I made a video talking about being made in the Image of God. I talked about the purity of being made as a women. The intention God had when he made women and when he made men. I talked about the genders that God has set up for us as humanity to navigate.
That's it. That is considered hate speech. Talking about God-given genders is considered hate speech.
Not once did I direct any hate towards anyone, nor would I ever. I despise the picket-sign church goers who scream "you're going to hell!" from the side of the road into busy traffic. It is horrifying to see any person claiming to be a person of faith to do that. That is NEVER the heart of God. My heart breaks every time hate is spewed to a people group or community.
I want to explain this: My intention and heart is never to instill hate or fear. I would never participate in a group who openly screams out of anger to a people group.
My intention instead is to help shed light on a problem in this country: confusion, depression and gender dysmorphia.
The question is: why not let them do what they want? Why not let someone who is a girl transition to a boy if they want to? Who is it hurting? The answer is this: it is hurting them. We have a generation of young people who hate who they are so much that they want to change themselves. They want to hurt themselves. The depression and anxiety rate in this country is larger than it ever has been in HISTORY. Does this have anything to do with the fact that children are going through procedures to change their biological, God-given identity?
I will not silence my voice and beliefs because you disagree with me. And neither should you. There comes a time when someone has to speak up. There has to come a time where somebody says enough is enough. There are children suffering from the decisions we are allowing them to make at an incredibly vulnerable time, in a time where everyone wants to find identity, at an age where everyone wants to feel like they have a community and group to fit in.
The solution is not to change their sweet, precious, beautiful and innate gender. Where is the outcry against this?
I know I may be offending so many of you, and my intention isn't to hate or be "transphobic." I love you if this is your struggle: there is no shame in it. There is no shame if you are tempted to change your gender. But I want to plead with you: the way that you were intricately designed is something to be proud of. The way your body, emotions, feelings and heart was designed is beautiful and uniquely created by God.
I believe we have an enemy. I believe the enemy wants to destroy our innate, beautiful genders. He wants to convince us that we aren't who we are created to be by whispering lies to us, telling us that we have to change in order to feel happy, that we have to change who we are in order to feel content and finally free. But this is a lie.
You do not have to change your gender to find happiness. I believe that when you put your happiness in who God has made you to be: there you will find the freedom we all search for.
Some of us search for that happiness in jobs, relationships, sex, money, etc. Just because your temptation has been to find happiness in your gender doesn't mean you are alone in that. And it doesn't mean that you need to solve it by changing yourself.
I say all of this to say this: Tiktok has one motive and one script to promote. That script is not believing that who you are is beautiful and innately designed by God. The script they promote is the position of empowerment through gender change, empowerment through selling your body online (they promote Only Fans, a website where you pay for influencer porn.)
Where are the voices of the Jesus lovers? Speak up because everyone else is. Not for hate, but for change.
I will be posting more about this later on my instagram, olivebranchtruth, so if you like and want to see more follow me on there.
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Julia